Behind the Numbers: November 29, 2009 - December 5, 2009

Republicans, Democrats and independents who took the new Washington Post poll on the state of the Republican Party told us the first words they would use to describe the GOP. Click here to see the tag clouds that show which words each group uses most....

One Republican Party fissure highlighted by today's Washington Post poll is a sharp generational divide on how the Party should operate in a Democratically-controlled Washington and which issues should be at the top of the platform. Younger Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in the poll are more apt to say they...